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New comment by cupofjoakim in "Blorp Language"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:21:36 +0000

Well, nesting is not the only option.

``` thing.doThis() thing.thenDoThat() thing.andFinallyThis()

// or

doThis(thing) thenDoThat(thing) andFinallyThis(thing) ```

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Blorp Language"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:50:44 +0000

Fair! That'd depend on the operations right? For example, AFAIK typescript can't do much about multiple chained `map` calls, and i've seen quite a few `.filter(...).map(...).filter(Boolean).map(...)` :/

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Blorp Language"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:15:05 +0000

Interesting. there are some parts i like a lot here, but two things that I really dislike syntax wise. One is the lean towards a chainable syntax - this has proven to a big footgun for many devs in both java streams and typescript, making it very easy to go from O(n) to O(2n). The other part i really dislike is the first argument principle noted. If i myself define `string_and_reverse` and I can call it both through `string_and_reverse(42)` and `42.string_and_reverse()` i could definitely see this leading to some very funky looking chaining.

Perhaps it's just one point from me - not liking chaining :D

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Claude Opus 4.7"

cupofjoakim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:43:53 +0000

> Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text. The tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type.

caveman[0] is becoming more relevant by the day. I already enjoy reading its output more than vanilla so suits me well.

[0] https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator"

cupofjoakim — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:16:20 +0000

This is great. I wish however there was some sandbox support, perhaps running the whole hive inside a vm for example

New comment by cupofjoakim in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

cupofjoakim — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:28:31 +0000

The US being stuck in imperial is such a meme nowadays with "freedum units" and the like. It's yet another odd thing that makes it easy for the rest of the world to laugh at the US. In these isolationist times I doubt this will change soon though, but it'd definitely help international collaboration.

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Apple Creator Studio"

cupofjoakim — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:21:03 +0000

That's great if you need everything. If you need one of them, not so much.

Ask HN: If browsers had an alternative to JavaScript, what would that be?

cupofjoakim — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:22:49 +0000

As a javascript/typescript dev of ~15 years I'm growing increasingly sceptic of the languages. It's definitely easy and flexible, but I find that there's an incredible amount of pitfalls that even senior developers run into.

One thing I am certain about is that javascript has gone through a very large amount of changes in it's lifetime – it doesn't look at all like it did when it was released and its' intended usages have changed a lot.

I can't help to think that there has to be a better way. Are we stuck with supporting mutable prototypes forever or what could an alternative look like?

Personally I'd still want a scripting language, but one that would be a lot stricter. No binaries like wasm, less globals, preferably type safe. I'd also prefer if we could go a route that didn't rely on the event loop and supported multiple threads.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392217

Points: 3

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New comment by cupofjoakim in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

cupofjoakim — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:29:20 +0000

I find your comment a bit funny on multiple levels. "Linux" does not force anything on you right? It's the community that has by and large decided to move to maintaining other solutions. If you still want to use fvwm you can still run it on arch with x11 until x11 is not maintained and the kernel breaks it somehow

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:29:08 +0000

an image is available in the PR where it was added: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/pull/30

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Shader Glass"

cupofjoakim — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:49:41 +0000

It'd be cool, but I guess the hodgepodge of different solutions in that space would make it really hard. For example, many mods for GW2 don't work in linux if you're on something like Hyprland due to them having to act as overlays. Not sure if that's a wayland issue or just a typical hyprland thing though

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"

cupofjoakim — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:07:04 +0000

Dead Internet Theory is no longer a theory huh?

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Aggressive bots ruined my weekend"

cupofjoakim — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:02:51 +0000

Not sure if that's satire or not but how would you even identify the party to sue? What do you do if they're based in a country where you can't sue them ofer relatively trivial matters as this?

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Aggressive bots ruined my weekend"

cupofjoakim — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:15:44 +0000

We feel this at work too. We run a book streaming platform with all books, booklists, authors, narrators and publishers available as standalone web pages for SEO, in the multiple millions. Last 6 months have turned into a hellscape - for a few reasons:

1. It's become commonplace to not respect rate limits

2. Bots no longer identify themselves by UA

3. Bots use VPNs or similar tech to bypass ip rate limiting

4. Bots use tools like NobleTLS or JA3Cloak to go around ja3 rate limiting

5. Some valid LLM companies seem to also follow the above to gather training data. We want them to know about our company, so we don't necessarily want to block them

I'm close to giving up on this front tbh. There's no longer safe methods of identifying malignant traffic at scale, and with the variations we have available we can't statically generate these. Even with a CDN cache (shoutout fastly) our catalog is simply too broad to fully saturate the cache while still allowing pages to be updated in a timely manner.

I guess the solution is to just scale up the origin servers... /shrug

In all seriousness, i'd love if we somehow could tell the bots about more efficient ways of fetching the data. Use our open api for fetching book informations instead of causing all that overhead by going to marketing pages please.

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:37:30 +0000

This PR added ~6400 passes for some css stuff. That's not enough to warrant the spike I think, but surely helped: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/6370

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

cupofjoakim — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:50:24 +0000

Personally I'm interested in this proposed flatness. I understand that it's the aim, but at the end of the day someone approves vacations, manages budgets for projects and is the person that has to have hard conversations with an employee right? Someone will have higher mandate for hard decisions?

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Web designs are getting too complicated"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:55:50 +0000

> Awwwards is not representative of the web at large

100%. I used to work at a studio specifically targeting winning awards with awwwards and it's definitely not the same as working on the normal web. Flashiness is way more important than performance there, be it in UX, conversions or load times.

It was a good space to play around with things like animations and webgl, but turns out that if your business needs to convert, those things can often come in the way of that.

New comment by cupofjoakim in "Spotify Down"

cupofjoakim — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:26:12 +0000

I hope they post a post-mortem afterwords. Given that the outage seems to be on an infra-level (support domain is far from the app stuff) I take it something really funky has happened.

New comment by cupofjoakim in "The Jakt Programming Language"

cupofjoakim — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:03:51 +0000

Seems pretty popular already, but I have missed this. What's the USP of Jakt over something like native c++, rust or zig? I don't really see the need, would love to hear from someone who knows

New comment by cupofjoakim in "We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand"

cupofjoakim — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:20:46 +0000

I enjoy the idea of Mittelstands. The "forever growth" that is a common target otherwise feels misguided and overbearing at times, but I also understand that this clashes a lot with the american super-capitalist mindset. We should all be billionaires right? /s

On the topic of mittelstands vs startups - I think it's a non issue. You can have both. However, startups are starting to get a certain smell to them. Probably swearing in church here (hello ycombinator) but too many startups feel unreliable and the amount of founders just looking for an early exit is really not helping.